impossible for him to compete and in the meanwhile tobacco was dying as an industry and so were textiles the other mainstay of life trade by the time he tried to make a go of it as an entrepreneur the war -- rural south was beginning to look a lot like the core of our cities with rampant drug abuse and multiple generations on public assistance, unemployment and kind of despair settling in. dean price like all the characters in the book, had a vision of how he could resuscitate the collapsing order around him and he had a series of epiphanies. being a man from a religious area although he turned and rebelled against his father's harsher christianity he remained a spiritual man and his vision was a kind of revival of the countryside through what was right at hand which is to say

crops like canola and waste oil from all the fast food joints in north carolina which is to say biodiesel. he wanted to become a biodiesel entrepreneur and that continues to be his ambition today. i'm going to read you a passage from middle of the book the catch is dean just that the cost of his transition from truck stop entrepreneur turned the johnny appleseed of biofuels. you can see that i had a tremendous amount of material covering the fastness of the country. silicon valley is in this book. wall street is in the book the power centers but so are these forgotten and left behind places like the rust belt and like the rural south, like the excerpts of tampa bay after the housing bust. i had to create a structure that could tell these stories in the manner of a big novel and the

structure takes you through 30 years of american history. but it's not big history. it's not the big events of the past generation. it's this inner history of their lives which are always being pushed and acted upon by what is happening in places like wall street and washington. so it's history from the ground up but always under the influence of these larger forces that are gradually undoing the contract to hold america together and that these characters all grew up with. i will and with this passage from the middle of the book which comes just before the financial crisis, which is a reckoning for price because that is when his truck stop is this fails and all the other characters in the book.

a two-lane asphalt road ran past the woods. white oak shag bark history carolina ash and in the shadows of the trees a tobacco barn was year-by-year collapsing on itself. the metal roof sloping in pieces of bear sighting hanging loose from nails. nearby a white clapboard house with empty windows squatted at the roadside half smothered in tree branches and vines while the fire scorched handwritten sign on the outside wall still advertised crush. further along the road took a turn and a tidy brick ranch house with a big satellite dish mounted on top stood in the golden sunlight of a red ground theme. another band, a gentle hill deep woods again been an amended metal warehouse alone in a clearing. the road straightened, flatten it came to a stoplight where a pair of strip malls faced each other parking lots full. a walgreens across from a mcdonald's.

shall opposing bp. another light a shuttered car dealership's at fast scrapyard with the mountain of twisted metal and tax timbres next door to a spinning wheel that sold off one part at a time. and then downtown the lonely little main street the tae kwon do studio a government benefits office, a close restaurant in nameless corner store for rent to pedestrians in four blocks at dollar general but mark the far end town. on the other side of the country opened up at once. the road passing fields corn planted on one and nothing on the next ,-com,-com ma weeds and clouds of dirt and a residential development with two-story look-alike houses in neat rows laid out across someone's former tobacco farm. beyond the subdivision isolated on acres of grass behind a split rail fence and a man-made lake. the supersized châteaux of a

celebrity nascar drivers. the landscape dean had returned to where he planned to live out his life was very old and also new as particular as anything in america and also as generic. as beautiful and as ugly. in his imagination and have become a nightmare so profoundly wrong that they call that sinful and he hated the sin that more than any casual visitor or distant credit possibly could. yet he also saw here a dream of redemption so unlikely and glorious that it could only fill a mind's eye of the visionary native son. one striving to cleveland county team happened to pass the hardshell baptist church that his other had once tried to get and failed, the failure that it rocha and his father's will. dean had gone down with him to cleveland county and heard the

sermon his father had given for his audition back around 1975 so decades later he records nice the church. he also noticed that there was now a bojangles right next door. for dean bojangles that come to represent everything that was wrong with the way americans lived. how they raise their food and transported it across the country can't do how they grew the crops to feed the animals they ate, the way they employ the people who worked in the restaurants the way the money left the community. everything about it was wrong. dean's own business, gas and fast food have become hateful to him and he saw the error of his ways as his father never had and the conjunction of his father's legacy and his own struck with bitter irony as he drove past. he was seen beyond the surfaces of the land to his hidden truths some nights he sat up late on his front porch with a glass of

jack and listen to the trucks heading south on 220 carrying crates of live chickens to the slaughterhouses always under cover of darkness like a fast and shameful trafficking. chickens pumped full of hormones that left them too big to walk. he thought how the same chickens might return from their destination as pieces of meat to his bojangles up the hill from his house and that meat would be drowned in the bubbling fryers by employees whose hatred of the job would leap into the cooked food. that food would be served up an eaten by customers who would grow op's and end up in the hospital in greensboro with diabetes or heart failure a burden to the public and later dean would see them writing around the walmart in electric carts because they were too heavy to walk the aisles of the supercenter just like the hormone fed chickens.

[applause] that is dean prices nightmare vision of one of the most beautiful parts of the country and it is his quest which is both self-interested because he wants to make his fortune but also a side of deep commitment both to his neck of the woods and really to an idea of america that still holds. to revive it with what he calls this new green economy calm --,n all innocence because no one told him about it. he didn't have an organization behind him, a newspaper or business association or community college and that is true of all the characters in the book. they are on their own figuring things out for themselves and what dean figures out is if he can get waste oil made biodiesel

and to every school bus in and every county in north carolina entire state would be revised and would be about like silicon valley. i say this in all respect for dean is a kind of steve jobs as biodiesel. that is still what he is doing today. in each of these stories teen, tammy thomas, jeff conning 10 they have all made mistakes and they screw up in big ways. they go bankrupt. they make stupid investments. they have too many children without a father to support them. they get involved in dirty businesses but they never let go of the idea that there is something more important than simply surviving and america still stands for that. the question is whether their investment and the american dream is reciprocated.

is the american dream still investing in people like them? the book takes you through their stories and others while moving between power centers backwaters celebrities as this period of the unwinding moves from the past, the late 70's until the moment we are living in now. that is what i try tried to do in writing this book. thank you. [applause] >> thanks to george packer author of the book "the unwinding" an inner history of the new america. we have a lot of questions here and people have a lot to ask you. a few things and can you sum up the problems of america in one book? >> it's not just about chickens.

[laughter] >> a few people want to know and i count myself among them just about the writing of this book. how long did it take and how did you find the people to profile? >> guest: this book was unlike anything i've written. it took about three years. two years of reporting and nine months in which the reporter continued as i had finished that the writing was a sprint. i'm am still exhausted from it. i didn't have a master plan. this was the terrifying thing. who was an interesting person? 30 seconds on the phone with dean price i told him stop talking. i'm coming down. don't waste it on the phone. little did i know i heard the same story 100 times and he was isaac cited and always sounded like he was telling it for the first time. dean price let me into his world

world. i stayed at his house and went down there six or eight times. he let me drive around north carolina on his lonely quest. as one man up against the multinationals, the big box stores and the indifference of bureaucrats and the poverty of the region the skepticism of his own mother. he kept at it in this quintessential american way. that was an easy one. of course i wanted to tell his story and it fits so well with this larger theme. jeff conning 10 the washington operative imad while working on a new yorker piece about insider trading. he was the source for me and he mentioned he had been a longtime washington insider. yeah i need the washington part of the story and he is the vehicle for it. i was always looking for the character who would allow me to tell the story and intimate

terms. i did not want to tell the big story of how how money took over washington. we have heard it in the thought of having to assemble all the research and data seemed pointless. to tell it through one man's life, that kind of excited my literary instincts. tammy thomas actually went out to find -- i wanted to find a woman in the rust belt who was doing something to try to turn around. >> you found these people and you've visited them again and again. you spoke with families and friends and a lot of reporting. when you read this book it reads more like a novel. it's literary nonfiction. can you talk about the approach it took to putting it all together in writing it in that way as opposed to more dry academic book collects. >> the biggest decision i made was to get rid of the first

person so you will not find i in the book. i even tried to get rid of it in the end knowledge months but it was very awkward so i had to put it in. [laughter] the decision to get rid of i bands i had to tell the inspired inspired -- and higher story -- there would be no direct commenting explaining arguing, bringing my own experience which are the tools i have always used in the past and that put me much closer to the terrain of a novel a novel in the third person but with a lot of points of view. how to structure it was the moment of panic. i had done two years of hard work and had no idea how all of this would hang together. and was really in sort of the state of crisis about it. my wife reminded me at the start that process i had come up with a structure which i think that red hat does i assumed it would never work as she reminded me it

was to use the great trilogy of john dos passos usa which is about the first three decades of the 20th century america and which moves from his ordinary protagonist to portraits of woodrow wilson and john d. rockefeller and jpmorgan. and through these kind of mishmash is of headlines and songs of different moments along the way. i didn't think i could do that to coase i didn't think i had the whole story of these people that would allow me to go through 30 or 35 years of their lives. when i started to write i realized that i got a lot from them. spending weeks with people you pick things up along the way he, the odd moments and that he came the structure to move through american history in these parallel tracks from different parts of the country that cut

back and forth which means really having the careful deficiency about how to sequence them. how long can i leave dean price after introducing him before the right -- readers forget about him? >> this is reminiscent of john dos passos. you say unwinding. you have undergone this many times. is the unwinding making america a worse place or in some ways is it making it better? >> i think it's moving in two directions at once. we have greater freedom than we have ever had. more choices, more apps and more people who can use them. the circle of inclusion has widened. you can now be a way scout which you could not when i was a kid.

that is a good thing. but that gave boy scout probably goes to a public school. at the same time we have had this widening of freedom and of choice we have had growing disparities between groups of americans until today we are at a point where it makes makes "the great gatsby" seem relatively egalitarian. we have a class of celebrities that are like a superclass and to themselves. they marry each other and they cheat on each other. they sit on each other's boards. the blurb each other's books. they are like olympic gods and the country is left at the bottom to watch the men off. that is the role that some of the celebrities in my book play. it's hard to say is the trade-off worth it? i would say that trade has been freedom. we have more freedom and less

freedom than we did 30 years ago. if equal opportunity really is disappearing as a fact, not a theoretical possibility, more americans in erie have opportunity. the place you were born, the family you're born into and where you go to school are really going to determine to a large degree where you end up and that wasn't true when i was growing up, not nearly as much. to me that is the end of the crucial part of the american dream. we have equal opportunity and to become a class society a stratified society and i hate seeing that happen. i don't know on balance -- i do know on balance. i fear for the future that my kids are going to grow up into because everything is pushing us away from each other. even the internet is pushing us away from each other.

we are connected virtually but i think physically it actually get a wisest lesson puts us into -- some people think the internet is the answer to everything. a new peer network society and pure networks can be useful for things like amazon reviews and wikipedia and kickstarter although wikipedia has a few things wrong in my biography. [laughter] no surprise. i don't think it has the answers to the basic questions of justice and fairness that we face. i don't have the magic here's the form we all need to move to the next era. i'm sure we will get there. i just don't know what it looks like. >> was there a point or historical moment where government business etc. seem to move away or lose its obligation towards a whole unfair society?

>> you know i began the book in 1978. for arbitrary reasons it's when one i graduated from high school prop 15 passed in california which i think is a signal event in beginning to dissolve the glue that held together public institutions. another thing that happened in 78 is throughout the 70s with all the economic appeals at that time businesses began to feel that they could no longer afford to play ball with government and labor the way they had throughout that post-war era of business labor cooperation and they began to spend money on lobbying in washington in a big way. there were a few bills that came up in congress that year. carter was president and the democrats controlled both houses. the bills were all defeated including a reform bill because

businesses lobbied so heavily against them. douglas frazier who was the head of uaw then, quit president carter's business labor council and wrote an interesting letter of resignation which i actually quote in one of these mash-ups from 1978. he said, in his letter the leaders of industry commerce and finance in the united states have broken and discarded the fragile unwritten compact previously existing during the past period of growth and progress. today we only can imagine there is ever going to be such a thing is that business labor government counsel to solve problems of automation and unemployment. everyone is essentially pursuing it. there was a time when all of those sectors exercised a certain amount of restraint because they knew if you push too hard and pursuing your own narrative you might began to destroy a thing that holds

society together. i think you can look back at the 70's, the late 70's and say that is what happened. >> there is always a tendency to romanticize the past. growing up during get in on the watergate energy crisis and inflation. were those really the good old days? >> you no, i would not want to go back to a time when whole classes of americans were disenfranchised, when there was no repertoire. and when the best show on tv was the mary tyler moore show. there are a lot of good things about life today. one of them is my pocket. i'm a slave to it. i bow down before it. it has power. but, i don't see why these things could not have coincided with a maintenance of a basic contract among americans that

held the country together rather than turning everyone into a free agent and an entrepreneur which is sort of where we are today. dean price is a real figure of the present exist to him it's all about entrepreneurship and making his own way except no one ever makes their own way. there is always some government program or scientific research which of course began silicon valley. there is always some bureaucratic structure that creates sort of the boundaries in which people can operate so that no one is able to up use their power. i just see those eroding and even collapsing around us. i don't see why we can't have gave boy scouts and good public schools. why can't we have a? >> are there and institutions that survive or even gaining in strength?

>> is the internet and institution? the internet is a thing we have created. it would sort of be like saying you know air travel is gaining strength. i don't see them. maybe they are out there. i would love to hear from audience members and others who think i have missed some phenomenon that is happening in america under our noses but it's too early to see it which is actually going to replace it. in my own world of journalism two things are happening. one is that newspapers and news networks are dying. i mean the "l.a. times" might be on to play the coat brothers in a few months. you know, there are a few holdouts. thank god "the new yorker" is one of them and they continue but there was value to having

strong independent news organizations. they were professional. there was a level of competence and expertise that was expected. as that dies we have twitter facebook, social media which is this powerful tool that more and more people can use soap power is diffused and everyone has their own news organization. we have this new thing called citizen journalists which there is a chapter in the book about and bright park -- breitbart. anyone can be a citizen journalist and it's fun but do we talk about citizen brain surgeon's? to me it suggests the kind of contempt for what i do as if anyone can do it. it's not that hard and in fact better get out of the way and let people with fresh energy takeover. i can't help seeing that as a

trade-off that might not be rth >> you what we are a say in our newsroom this isn't brain surgery. >> it's not brain surgery but it's not tweeting either. >> i just want to remind her radio audience you are listening to the commonwealth public california. this is george packer staff writer for "the new yorker". social shifts he says are harming the fabric of america was in some ways. one of our audience you mentioned you grew up in a good school system. that has remained relatively impact. >> there has been repeal about repealing prop 13 or modifying prop 13 but in some ways in california essentially the parents have stepped in and filled the void. do you see that changing? >> last last year did in california passed an initiative to raise taxes for funding

public schools? you know i almost put that into the 2012 mash-up because it seemed like the perfect look and to 1978 in prop 15. after this long and really misguided foray into low tax small government let a thousand flowers bloom and wilt, we have begun to wake up to the fact that you just can't be a successful society and economy without responsibilities to match your rights. so, that may be a sign that there is a new sobriety and a new maturity about the public. every time i see it taking a step that way i see apple doing everything it can to avoid paying corporate taxes and still calling themselves save

revolutionary lifestyle. so i don't see a trend in a single direction. when i began this book it had a renewing decline and renewal.

that is as universities, and other great legacies, which no one can object to, but which seem like we find it is part of the public sector. and then the idea that this is a kind of web that goes way above the personal. it is sort of fading.

so that when it is an individual that is, you know, part of this institution, it may be idealistic, but it's not very democratic. it is not accountable. >> is someone in his late 20s, what would be the main economic differences i've i would notice if i went back in time? >> i think the biggest difference is if you're growing up in north carolina, and you are not all that interested in scoring, and you get, you know, you're b-minus to dinner high school degree, there is a job waiting for you at r.j. reynolds tobacco warehouse in winston-salem. or at hanes underwear.

and they have been left out of what ever you kinds of employment is being created in the two most successful sectors of our country have been wall street and silicon valley. i like silicon valley better than i like wall street. but neither one of them is creating jobs that are working or even middle-class jobs and i grew up understanding those words, or people without great educations were chances in life, where they can do okay and do well enough to be part of society. instead, if you do not have that handholding, you fall, you drop. there is a family in one of the chapters of the book who are all

alone. a blue-collar worker, went to work at wal-mart in the 20 hour per week from $8 per hour produce stopper role. and that is what people used to work at r.j. reynolds are now faced with. i think that would be the most erratic change we have seen in the economy. >> it would be more likely that only one of the parents would be working. >> and one job rather than three would be enough to sustain the family. >> and you have a place that was made for you that you could step into instead of having to re-create yourself every few years as the creator of capitalism and as it keeps changing economies. one became a billionaire or facebook. and he's a libertarian.

it's interesting because he moved into directions at once. and he really is a believer and forgetting about the old and tired structures. you know, that life as individual and society is as important and you need to work on her talent. but he also admits that they have coincided with a period of middle-class decline. maybe the iphone isn't overrated gadget. there are not many billionaires that are willing to talk away, so he is a very interesting character in this world that i described. >> you feel the changes in the tax code result in the inequality and the ability to to achieve the american dream?

>> welcome another thing that began in the late 70s was dramatic and regressive changes in the tax code. and taxes on the upper brackets were at 80% through the eisenhower years. somehow those were still very prosperous years. but the 70s changed everything. because suddenly businesses could not compete, globalization began. inflation ate away at people's wealth and there was a reaction, which is we have to protect our interests here and welcome people to do the same. there was a natural reaction that brought reagan end. what's strange and disturbing is that one certain taboo seem to be broken, like the idea that you should do everything you can if you're a successful company

like apple to pay the taxes and then complain that are there are not enough educated engineers in the country. but if you are a ceo that is just fired 20% of the workforce committee should not have a board that is going to give you a pay raise for doing that. things that just demoralize people and make it seem like you are a sucker if you play by the rules. that shift did not need to follow the course correction that came in with reagan. but it seemed as once it began, there was no stopping it. otherwise you're the sucker at the poker table. so became kind of a little window or a loophole into much bigger forces that started pouring. >> it has been a movement of many people.

now, is that a sign of something in that direction? a movement? >> that is a sign of a plutocracy. which understands that it doesn't look good to die with all your money. [laughter] >> and second, the country needs him desperately. i admire buffett more for calling for the end of this rather than calling for the federal billionaires to give this away. i mean, that is the kind of structural change and also the fundamental self sacrifice but that's a good pattern for others to follow as well. >> can we trust anyone in the

government? >> welcome i have a positive portrait of alliterative unturned elizabeth warren. and she well may disappoint us. it worried me to see her joined the elite democratic individuals in the senate. [laughter] >> to know what the senators become because i have interviewed quite a few of them. but what i like about her that she doesn't talk with a kind of wink and a nod to say that, you know, that we all know that we are in the same group here. i just need to save these things for my constituents. we understand each other.

george huddleston was a popular congressman from alabama and early 20th century. she reminds me of politicians like will fall it and she comes from oklahoma and a type of american politicians. >> wants something unwinds come as we feel that it has come and is there any going back? that it would be wrong to back up? >> not in the same way. can we have the new deal that? probably not. can we have glass-steagall that? probably not. that does not mean nothing like a reassertion of public power against all this private power can happen? no. constant shifting back and forth

between public and private interests, and we have now gone so far in this direction that i think that there is a sense of crisis and things being broken that we need, that we still need. we need an sec that can prevent the stock market from becoming an electronic casino that only the wealthiest and most sort of sophisticated investors stand a chance in. because the stock market is an important institution for ordinary americans. but it has become a place where high frequency trading in milliseconds is going to win. if you are out there, you're going to be left behind. so there's no reason why the old idea of public power and accountability cannot be

revived. but i know my own tendencies, which is to look back to the public model that probably gets in way of my thinking clearly about the future. we all have our biases, that one is mine. maybe people younger than me can figure it all out. >> you have the tea party one hand. is it going to take something like that? or is that the wrong way to go about it? >> i think that the tea party doesn't have the answers. but they are from different backgrounds. there's the tea party leader in tampa that becomes a political leader in tampa. then there is a long chapter on occupy wall street as well. they both are populist reaction to a sense that the elite has failed and the institution run by those elite no longer serves

the broader public concerns. and that diagnosis, i believe is accurate and will stay with us because it is accurate. i think he was a really important movement. it gave people a language kind of articulate a feeling that was widely held. i spent a lot of time and once it was raided and the occupy ended, it showed it never had a deep foundation or a structure. in a way it was part of the unwinding and i wanted everything to be level with no leaders and no goals and demands. and i don't think in politics that that is going to get you very far. but it didn't work with new media today.

but they are both, they are moving in the direction of socialism and libertarianism and totally different directions. you just cannot have both. but they both are saying that one of the main characters and and he was getting well paid by a bank that turned out to require massive infusions of taxpayer money in order to survive and nearly brought down the rest of the economy with it. and people see that, they just think that the meritocracy might actually be rigged. you know, maybe there is a sense in which the people who seem to be the most qualified, they

really don't know what they are doing. so i actually believe in experts, i believe institutions that you move up as you get better. i do not believe that they should be fake or read. more and more, that's the way it seems. >> ordered where the most important things that we can do like to point and in our individual lives to ensure an equitable america? >> that is the question that i see the most. and i think that i don't have -- this book does not end with 10 prescriptions for making america a better place. there are other books that do that. i didn't want to destroy what i

have done by leaving you with an adequate and bogus set of policies. i simply wanted to paint a portrait and make it as panoramic and intimate as i could. hoping that narrative is one way that we understand ourselves in one way that we see who we are. and how different things would seem to be happening, but actually there is something holding it together. there is a common story that ties wall street to rural north carolina and youngstown and silicon valley, and that is probably what i will do in the unwinding. that is my best an adequate answer for that question. >> maybe it's because of the perspective of time, these things, we don't always recognize at the time what is going on.

>> we are too close to a because it's all around us. it's our life, we take things for granted. and, you know, and you have to just live it to some extent. even if the housing market is actually reaching record levels, it is a broad sense that we have just not had real economic dynamism were real political progress in the country for a long time. americans are restless. they are beyond just gdp and quarterly earnings. and who won the last cycle. there is something essential in the fabric and it's on the walls

in north carolina, the declaration is on one wall, the gettysburg addresses on another blog. and a quote from robert lee is on the table in the dining room and he kind of has it all covered. [laughter] >> up like he is a believer. [laughter] >> maybe people no longer feel comfortable with those things, but that's what it's about. that is why he's doing what he's doing. he came up to my house and he met and stayed at my house a couple weeks ago, which was a little crazy for me. suddenly these people came out of my head. but he gave me this quote of the people by the people for the people. >> unfortunately we have reached the end of the segment. we have time for one more question. if you have no dozen on how to

fix things, to whom should we turn or two but? >> the lesson that i learned from writing this is that when you think nothing is happening when you are not paying attention, something is always happening. it is often in the most on look for places where the media is not fair. there is no one paying attention. it is happening while people are focused on the latest filibuster . >> this creates a certain resourcefulness and resilience, which is hopeful. i don't see this as part of a

larger social pattern or trend that i could give a name to and it it may not come from washington. and my come from each of these little quiet places. >> we thank george from the new yorker. [applause] >> we also thank our audience that is here. i want to remind you that he will autograph the book and it is for sale in the lobby. the place where you are in the know. we are adjourned.

>> like us or interact with booktv viewers were guests. facebook.com/booktv. >> here are a few programs to watch this weekend on booktv. we sat down with brian lamb to talk about a mother and her family in urban america. the program first aired on september 12, 1998 and kicked off booktv's 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2.

>> they were emancipated slaves in 1863. they have force down prices for the major cash crops of that area. and the person lost the plantation. so they might have ended up migrating to washington, looking for work and a better life. >> watch a really air of the program at 6:00 p.m. eastern. at 8:15 a.m. on sunday, alison stewart gives a history of dunbar high school from the first african-american high school in the united states. then we bring you a collection of programs on syria and middle east issues at 5:00 p.m. eastern. as a booktv.org for a complete television schedule. >> now from annapolis maryland, the site of the united states naval academy.

we take a tour of the library with jennifer bryan of special collections and archives. >> doctor payne collected these books and there are approximately 3,500,000 and he was the third administrator and under his watch seven of the apollo missions were launched. in 1992, the collection was offered to the academy and in the fall she offered this collection to the academy. the gift was finalized in 1996 he served in world war ii and it did seven cruises in the pacific

during world war ii and it is presumed that that is where his interest suddenly developed. perhaps he was interested prior to that, but certainly i would imagine about that that was the impetus for him to start working books related to this. he has books that go from the time of to doctor king's death. that wasn't impetus for his book. he graduated from stanford and then do not work for general electric and i believe it was in 68 that he became the assistant administrator in 1969. so one of my favorite books is a french book in the late 1800s, and this is a history of the

marines. it is interesting because it has an illustrated cover and illustrations are interesting in it. still it is an interesting book from the time period. this book is about going from the pacific to atlantic and it is written by the commander. this is the book from world war i. there is a very special historical interest as we dramatically illustrate the seven-year war during which seven-year crimes were committed. allies and neutrals, leaving their victims to perish without

even lifting a finger to help them. there is a book from around 1920, we also had some earlier books, which is very interesting . it was published when this marines really was still experimental. we have some pictures in the archives there. so i would say that those workers, we also have a new town that worked on this from world war ii and it hasn't interesting cutaway of the interior. so those are some of the books in the collection and we also have books by the graduate of the academy who worked with this

as well. so there a lot of works in the collection. there are a certain number of individuals in the collection, as well as individuals in magazines and has had articles about this. about going under the polls, the magazine that is about part of world war ii and we have some scientific american issues. and this is a fictional one that was published in 1919. it was included in the illustrations and so forth and so on. so it makes it very interesting as we combine these illustrations of actual people

and events. this was the first to surface with americans. and suddenly became part of this. and it was in singapore and basically east asia, and it lays out the whole war plan. it is taken to offices without their knowledge, which is how was published. >> he works in italian, russia, spanish, french, japanese, it's such an interesting collection.

>> for more information on this and other cities visited by c-span's local content vehicles, visit c-span.org/local content. >> here are some of the books were published in 1998. booktv's first year on c-span2. in february of 1998, taylor branch came out with the second volume of his trilogy on pillar of fire. 1963 through 1965. then the life of johnny rockefeller senior was released. kind was nominated for the national book critics circle award and was also named one of the best nonfiction books of 1998 by the editors of "the new york times." also published, to end a war. former assistant secretary of secretary of state. mr. holbrook recounted his 1995 mission as america's chief

negotiator to end the war in the balkans. and monica crowley's book about the final revelations of diplomacy and watergate was released in june of 1998. she served as the foreign-policy assistant to former president nixon from 1990 through 1994. ann coulter's book, high crimes and misdemeanors. the case against bill clinton. and the professor and the madman in the making of the oxford english dictionary was released by simon winchester. in september of 1998, former president george bush and his national security adviser published a world transformed. from 1989 through 1991. in a dream deferred was also released in september. a companion book to the history channel's tv series was published in november, as well

as the rerunning clinton's collection of books. for more on these books published in 1998, booktvfirst-tier broadcasting on c-span2, visit us online at booktv.org. >> not a program that launched booktv on september 12, 1998. ..